America’s most glamorous Depression-era outlaws, Clyde Barrow and his girlfriend, fashion-plate Bonnie Parker, died 79 years ago today in an ambush by a Texas sheriff’s trigger-happy posse.

A new, four-hour miniseries that will air on the History Channel, Lifetime and A&E steers Emile Hirsch and Holliday Grainger into the roles made famous by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in Arthur Penn’s 1967 Oscar-winning film.

“Bonnie & Clyde,” currently filming in Baton Rouge, La., co-stars Holly Hunter as Parker’s mother, Emma, and William Hurt as Texas ranger Frank Hamer, who pursued the brazen Barrow gang as they terrified the Bible Belt, robbing banks and killing both police officers and innocent civilians.

Barrow was clever about eluding the police and taunting them for months. But his sixth sense was compromised by Parker’s appetite for newspaper publicity, which caught up with them this day in 1934.